SCARS: Our Evidence, if We Choose to Embrace Them
We all have that moment… the traumatizing experience that took our favorite fictional form of media and made it REAL, complete with actual feelings and maybe even tears. For me, it […]
PAIN: Our Mission, If We Choose to Accept It
So far, this was NOT going to plan… I’m frantically running around looking for ANY sign of cover in this unfamiliar setting, but every spot that seems to offer an […]
Ubisoft – A Question of Ownership and a Bridge Too Far?
I am used to reaching “The End” in most of my video games… after adventuring through the entire narrative and accomplishing all of the missions I was tasked with, that […]
Answering the Question “What If?”
The animated Marvel series, “What If…?”, aspires to do something very rarely attempted in any other form of media… tell us what would have happened if the characters and stories […]
One Bad Day: To Steal, Kill and Destroy (Broken Season – Part Four)
One bad day… those three words are typically the catalyst for almost every superhero story that we have ever enjoyed over the years. Bruce Wayne was living a fairly unexciting […]
“The Endgame”: A Calling and Election Made Sure
If you have played any story-based game through to completion over the years, you know the feeling… it’s that strange mixture of anticipation and dread that you feel in the […]
From Hero to Zero… Rayman’s “Rabbid” Journey and a Crisis of Faith
I try not to start these out with a “once upon a time” vibe, but it is kind of hard to take a look back at Rayman and his slow […]
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: Faith, Hope, and “If Wishes Were Fishes”
We are all accustomed to seeing “bugs” in our Pokémon titles… but typically they are cute and fun character such as Caterpie, Butterfree, or Cutiefly. The bugs that are currently […]
Reaching for Answers: Finding Peace in the Prequel
Star Wars. Halo. Harry Potter. Final Fantasy. The MCU. The Legend of Zelda. Tomb Raider. What is one thing all of these various properties and so many more have experienced […]
It’s Never Too Late: Sonic and Moving Past Our “Ugly” Start (Dreams Interrupted: From Discovery to Destiny – Part 4)
If you had told me five years ago that the Sonic the Hedgehog game series would mutate into becoming not just one, but the top TWO highest-grossing domestic video game […]
Finding God in Video Games 